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Recently, during Insydium's Black Friday sale, I finally decided to pick up X-Particles 4.
Now that I'm unemployed with way too much free time on my hands, I figured now was as good of a time as any to start deep-diving into new skills.
Now that I'm unemployed with way too much free time on my hands, I figured now was as good of a time as any to start deep-diving into new skills.
So far, I'm absolutely floored by the potential of this software. I have exactly zero idea what I'm doing, but I'm having a great time learning. This project is based on traced particles rendered as hair in Octane. I'm hardly the first person to render particle trails but I thought they were really pretty and wanted to show them off.
I post a lot of my early tests on my Twitter & Instragram, so feel free to follow me over there for early teasers and test :)
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